[cvsnt] Committing unmodified file after merge

[Tony Hoyle]

Harrison, Andrew wrote:

> All the files that had been changed in the Main branch before the first
> merge but not changed in the Dev branch get merged back again. CVS then
> commits them and creates a new revision even though there is no change in
> the file.
> 
The extra revision is to record the mergepoint.  It's perfectly 
harmless, and only takes a few bytes in the RCS file.

There have been ideas to get around it from time to time, but none of 
them seem to have worked 100%, and it's such a minor thing that it's not 
worth worrying about.

Tony